Wikipedia wasn’t aware of YouTube’s conspiracy video plan

Wednesday, 14 March 2018 (5 days ago)YouTube has a plan to combat the abundant conspiracy theories that feature in credulous videos on its platform; not a very good plan, but a plan just the same. It’s using information drawn from Wikipedia relevant to some of the more popular conspiracy theories, and putting that info front and center on videos that dabble in… […]

YouTube is teaming up with Wikipedia to combat conspiracy theories by linking Wikipedia pages to videos that contain conspiracy-related materials. Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke on a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel detailing how the "information cues" would operate. The information cues would...

YouTube has faced criticism not only for allowing conspiracy videos to appear on the site, but also how it has dealt with them. The latest move by Google in this...betanews 6 days ago - TechnologyAlso reported by •TechCrunch

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